skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With cancer, it’s exceedingly difficult to narrow down a cause unless someone was a smoker or was otherwise exposed to a very potent carcinogen or to abnormal amounts of radiation. Every day, humans are exposed to a variety of chemicals, metals, pollutants, and so on. For things that are suddenly increasing, we’d need hard and unbiased information about every common product, all nearby sources of pollution, everything in a persons normal diet, and so on. It isn’t easy.
This is not a drill. It really is Christmas.
Are Soldiworks, Fusion360, etc crutches that have made engineers "weak and directionless" or are they utterly indispensable tools that have drastically increase their capabilities and productivity and enabled them to create things they otherwise could not?
Yep this is the craziest part. The answer has been known for a long time. S&P500. Literally that simple
Online stock trading has gone from cheap to free, but that doesn't affect the worthiness of the book.
Why would they? Sports fans need to watch their teams, they will pay whatever they can afford to do so. This is different from Spotify/Netflix, where you don't really need to watch some movie or listen to music (which you can do for free on the radio). And particularly, with those services you don't need to listen/watch it live.

Why would they lower their profits? Even services like YouTube TV eventually catch up in price with regular cable.
Just voicing this thought is very impressive, and bodes well for reducing hallucinations:

> Despite my efforts, I'll have to admit that this one has stumped me.
nearly instantly searching through vasts amounts of data is one thing computers are amazing at and it is absurd not to leverage this capability wherever possible.
Unwrapping Ocarina of Time. My parents had me convinced it was sold out everywhere. That moment is seared into my brain.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you too. One of my fondest memories was getting a tiny battery-powered train set when I was around 6. No idea why I liked it so much. We didn't have many toys growing up so you had to enjoy the heck out of the ones you did get. I remember when I opened it up the room was dark and we sat under the light of our fake Christmas tree with multicolored lights.

My kids have too much these days and wonder if they will ever experience something like that.
You wouldn't download Hamlet's pirate story!
https://github.com/anvaka/atree

https://js1k.com/2010-xmas/demo/856

http://www.romancortes.com/blog/how-i-did-the-1kb-christmas-...
"Just turning off syntax coloring freaks recent developers.. even quite good ones.. i observed it."

Because it really does make code much easier to read and there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to not use it.
We've used xero.com and freshbooks.com multiple times. Always been happy with both. Freshbooks mainly for recurring invoicing and xero for the accounting.
Anonymity is, in fact, quite crucial to a surprisingly wide range of people: <https://geekfeminism.fandom.com/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22R...>
fuligin:
soot, lampblack.
a hypothetical colour darker than black.
If you count total wealth rather than median income probably, since before the wealth stayed in the community with the locally owned shops and after Walmart moved in the wealth gets extracted away from the community.
This. They caught me when they started offering decent DNS UI, held me when they gave me one-click SSL, and sealed the deal when they let me buy domains at cost.

I don't care what AWS offers because there's no way I'm venturing into that for my simple domains.
And on earth peace, goodwill toward men
Physical goods aren’t the right analogy. Cloudflare provides services, not goods, which means Cloudflare is actively involved in the illegal activity.

There’s ample precedent for requiring companies to stop serving known criminals, and for requiring them to do some basic checks to try to avoid doing it in the first place. Just look at all the trouble that state-legal-but-federally-illegal marijuana retailers have with the financial system.

There are services where this is not expected. The post office delivers the mail regardless. But I don’t see why Cloudflare would be one of those universal services.

This seems like a typical tech company thing where they act like they have an inherent right to scale. If they actually checked what their services were being used for then they could easily spot this stuff and shut it down, but that costs money and takes time.
Google's experimental thinking model is similarly casual. Not as casual as QwQ, but more casual than Gemini 1.5 Pro. Flash 2.0 will also go a bit more casual in its responses randomly, and when you tell it to think step by step.
People are really not nice today! :( I have a problem with my eyesight and I tried to avoid reading as much as I can. So I use an app to read aloud most things. I’m not trying to endorse it or anything.
Many local communities doesn't have a Walmart, so yeah.
I see what you mean.

So dead man walking is a bad description. From your perspective it's still KataGo winning but a series of serious blunders that occurs in these attacks positions.
Does anyone know who at Digikey is responsible for their absurd adblock-blocking efforts?

It's so goddamn tiresome that I'm headed to a site already with a list of things to buy and it blocks me because I've installed an extension that will block them from showing me ads trying to sell me even more stuff.
Reading through this, mostly struck by how positive it seemed toward "the West". Admittedly, from a British immigrant perspective, which may have something to do with the result.

However, many of the quotes could have relatively easily replaced "Indian" with "American" and I'm not sure I would have noticed other than the occasional references to India specific cultural institutions and caste ideas.

- Many people lie openly. Everyone knows everyone lies, but everyone lies anyway. Many 'Americans' convince themselves of their lies so that they can no longer differentiate between fact and fiction.

- Among ordinary 'Americans', conversations revolve around backbiting, gossiping about friends, discussing celebrities, exchanging superstitions, and animosity toward other groups.

- When I was a child growing up in 'America', I learned that “might makes right.” Power was often abused, with those in control acting as if they had a God-given right to exploit and dominate others. The display of authority could be so extreme that questioning it or expecting those in power to do their duty might lead to retribution. Those in authority seemed to believe that their positions were not for serving others but for personal gain.
Aliens using the ISS toilet confirmed.
I mean, why even use an ASCII table at that point? For initial comm you could just do A=0, B=1 etc. for initial comms (until you get to the point you want to reprogram the eeprom) you can have higher bandwidth communication.
Minisign and Sigstore are two purpose-build cryptosystems for proving the authenticity of public software releases.
Merry Christmas homies! We don't really celebrate Christmas in my country but I would still like to wish you all a great holiday! much love <3
This! Rather than focusing on a robust, bug-free "it just works" product - the original Steve Jobs vision embodied in late 90s/early 2000s Apple advertising, the offerings are desktop computers with hundreds of "cool" things you can do, like we're all teenagers. And once you click away all the pop-ups and disable the unwanted features, you're left with software that has a bug in it that's precisely the same as three versions ago. As for Apple Intelligence, I think I am really weird but when I am trying to find 'the answer' to something, I find the research process super informative and always get fresh ideas or new, peripheral input as I go.
I tried the 120Hz demo but can't really tell there's any effect. Does it look cooler with 240Hz?
Came home from Christmas Eve shopping/sight seeing in Manhattan with my dad and baby sister to find that our mom had gone and gotten us a puppy! I’d never had a dog before. It remains one of the best and happiest memories of my life :)
Italy has been at it for a long while. They've been able to block access to illegal websites for a very long while, like since 2006.
Thank you for this holiday gift of laughter <3
I've been dabbling with this issue for a few months. I've got a one-year-old ThinkPad that multi-boots Linux (Ubuntu 24.04, 23.10), and Windows 11. Upon purchase, I immediately upgraded the 1TB internal NVMe drive to a Samsung 4TB (990). Later, I had some difficulty while upgrading from 23.10 to 24.04. To make things easier while troubleshooting, I was backing up the 4TB image, and restoring it when the upgrade failed. After doing this a few times, I was looking for more speed.

I tried several NVMe/TB4 enclosures. Some of them were junk, some were just okay, and this one (which I now have two of) is great: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CSFFMQWF

I now also have three of these 8TB NVMe SSDs: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D9WT512W (I also have a few others that are slower and/or smaller.)

I've tried a few docks, and this is the one I'm using now: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DBHG7486 It's a good dock, but unfortunately needs the DisplayLink driver to use the DisplayPort output. This works okay, but the monitor stays dark until the desktop is booted, and cannot be used for switching between Linux virtual consoles.

First off, because my ThinkPad has only one TB4 port that also serves as the USB-C PD input, I needed a dock if I wanted to use a TB4 accessory while not running from the battery. The dock is also quite valuable for using an external (4K/60Hz) display when using another TB4 peripheral.

The SSDs work fine when plugged into the non-TB4 port, but they operate at less than half of their potential speed, and are enumerated as /dev/sdX instead of /dev/nvmeXnX.

Operating the SSDs from the TB4 port gives variable performance depending upon what else is connected, and when it was connected. The Linux PCI+bridge enumeration has some issues with hotplugable devices. Various combinations of
pci=assign-busses, realloc, native, hpbussize=XX, lastbus=XX, hpmmiosize=XXXM, hpmmioprefsize=XG will all give varying results. At best, with my 4K monitor operating, I can get 20gbps on one external SSD, or some division of that speed distributed amongst multiple other SSDs.

Leaving the PCIe enumeration to the kernel with no additional boot arguments did not go well with 23.10, but works better with 24.04. Hot-plugging performance is always a compromise, depending upon kernel parameters, and the order in which things are plugged in.
Clear signs of unconscious deep flow state. It takes time to get back from it. It also makes you a good programmer. There are ways to avoid/exit it (e.g. shower) if you want, but ymmw with timings and quality.

I’d suggest pushing work further in the day if possible. So that you live your life, then code, then go to sleep.
M4 Pro 512GB --> 2TB cost: $600

M4 Pro read/write: ~5.4/6.7 GB/s

Samsung 990 Pro 2TB: $170

990 Pro R/W: ~7.1/6.2 GB/s

Samsung 990 Evo 2TB: $130

990 Evo R/W: ~4.8/3.9 GB/s

Sorry no links, looked at tomshardware, Amazon, and macrumors forums for numbers.
What is the account creation limit with a Multilogin subscription?
I am not sorry and I will do it again.

But on a more serious note, while my use of live ISS telemetry is probably about as maximally frivolous as can get, it's nothing short of amazing that this sort of abject silliness is not only possible but actually trivial to pull off. So hats off to you and the rest of the hard-working folks at NASA (et al) who made it possible in the first place.

And yes there's definitely all kinds of interesting telemetry available from the ISS. Seeing the dashboard that the ISS mimic project has was quite an eye-opener
Forked the code and built a windows .net version. I got it to bring in telemetry data but failed to get the Urine Tank [%]
Well… yes, index funds are a safe, default choice most people. And yet, a funny thing about investing, versus other things professionals do like dentistry, is that it doesn’t necessarily require any skill. Dumb luck sometimes works just as well as sophisticated analysis. What other professions are like that?

I don’t think I had any particular insight into Google, but I worked there and never got around to exercising my options until I had to because they were going to expire. (Good thing HR sent me an email.) The slightly more sophisticated people were doing same-day sales and immediately diversifying, which I believe in, in principle. But I procrastinated, because it seemed like delaying was working out pretty well. Past performance is no guarantee, but why not wait a few months?

I thought Google was doing well, but so did everyone else. It was conventional wisdom the whole time. Apparently conventional wisdom wasn’t priced in, though?
I have a hobby project that turned into a fairly successful commercial project. I hardly use any IDE features. Sometimes, I write a new utility function like "get_abc_from_xyz_index" only to discover I already wrote it a year ago in the file I chose to put it in. So not only is the project well organized, but it's all me so I'm very familiar with it. Lots of tests. I also type extremely fast so unless autocomplete is perfectly tuned, it can just be annoying handling various languages and maybe on different machines. HTML tag closing is a good example of an annoyance.

Since I've been doing this for years, it bleeds into my work too, where compared to my peers I tend to use fewer dependencies and IDE features.
The parent comment said:

> Now most will just use some AI.

I'm genuninely wondering whether it's true. The "now" and "most" part.
It is pretty arbitrary, but in this case there’s broad agreement due to there being an obvious dividing line in the form of the Pyrenees.
We have to have a dependable supply chain. We found out during Covid we couldn't obtain the goods we needed. It doesn't matter how cheap goods are if they can't be purchased. China is a predatory, mercantilist economy. That cares more about providing its citizens with jobs than profit. They can ship goods under cost and drive competitors out of business. When it comes to cars I'll bet our tariffs haven't been anything like for example European tariffs on US cars. It's not a fair game with China. They'll supply us with hardware for our grid, but won't use our hardware in their grid. China blocks our internet.
Don’t worry, your friends have no idea what they are talking about.

As long as you enjoy solving software engineering problems (not just copy pasting lines of code from sof) — you can have a great career.

No serious software engineer with at least 5 years of good hands on experience is worried about it.

Gpt etc is fundamentally not “intelligence” in any valuable sense. It is nothing but advanced and powerful auto-complete for your code.

It will never _replace_ a real engineer.
In my case, it's not a limitation. I just wanted a reminder of what I'd been working on (and maybe "FIXED!" when it was done).

My personal diary is a Word document.
To me it feels like less of a hack if I can make the type declaration not a lie. e.g.

type FooID = string & { typeName? : "FooID" }

Read as 'of course this thing doesn't have a typeName[1] property, since it's a string, but if it did have the property, the value would be "FooID"'. You can then cast between FooID and string, but not between FooID and some other type that declares a typeName property.

[1] I actually tend to use 'classRef' with an RDFish long name for the type, but that makes examples longer and isn't the point.
I find it so ironic that a surprisingly large fraction of computer programmers are such curmudgeonly Luddites spurning the most basic tools that make their job easier. Meanwhile engineers are using Solidworks to model mechanism that would be nearly or actually impossible to create without it and then running a finite element analysis to verify it is strong enough and using selective laser sintering to create prototypes for testing and then using MasterCAM to optimize the machining process and then sending it to a $300,000 5 axis milling machine with automated tool changer. Then the part's dimensional tolerances are verified using a $200,000 Coordinate Measuring Machine that is calibrated using gauge blocks made using laser interferometry and accurate to plus or minus a few hundred atoms.
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FWIW I have the ASUS ROG Swift PG32UCDM 31.5" 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) 240Hz Gaming Monitor - a $1.3k monitor and also don't see anything different in the demo. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong thing. https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XfKfWd
Wait. This is a reprint from American Renaissance, the white supremacist publication. This is why it feels icky and just plain wrong.

Do you usually allows white supremacy masquerading as intellectualism?
The effort it takes most people to write, publish, and share their ideas is already steep. Id much rather this than them not sharing it at all for trivialities such as capitalization.
If you’re referring to speed, then thunderbolt does include PCIe support, including direct memory access.
So one of my current projects has a part that is five coordinated microservices. Two of them need to use concurrency that modern tooling doesn’t love out of the box. The entire system has to have strict timing and low latency. Autocomplete can help with some pieces but this isn’t actually that much code. What it requires is being able to visualize the whole thing, be able to test exactly how the underlying libraries respond to different kinds of errors, and how to prevent deadlocks. I have yet to meet an LLM capable of reasoning about deadlocks, catching signals within threads of a process, correct semantics of anonymous pipes and their buffers, etc. In order to work on something like this it does require flow state. You can’t just casually add a few lines or rework some module. You need to visualize the entire system, including error flows, before you can start changing it.

I could likely use some basic autocomplete for things like a function signature, but most times I have the function implementation on one side of my screen and where it’s being used on the other and chances are I’m changing both at the same time. Vim is wonderful for this kind of work.
Both TST and Sidebery are leagues ahead of tab groups IMHO. Frankly sidebar tabs just work better for 16:9 aspect ratio because with a maximized window most sites don't make good use of 1/4 of the width anyway.
Fun fact, these two very similarly named diodes are completely different

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley_diode

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schottky_diode
Probably volume and type of toxic materials are the best metrics
Yeah people dictator-sympathizers seem to think the problem with strongman asshole leaders is that they're meanie heads (something Real Patriots can look past!). But no, it's that they actually yield failure in a society's most basic functions and at every level.
In commercial aviation the vast majority of tragedies are Swiss cheese failures, at this point. The system has worked very hard to optimize out the possibility of any one individual failure leading to catastrophe. But the explosion of potential combinations - along with the extremely low odds of them ever occurring - makes preparing for one of them much less feasible.
Downvotes are often capricious, including on HN.

At the end of the day it's just numbers in a database somewhere.

It's actually kind of surprising how seriously people take it. I can easily imagine someone saying to the inventor of downvotes: "Yeah but what happens if people just... ignore the number? Why would anyone actually give a crap?"
"Great" may be overstating things just a tiny bit especially in comparison to ISS Mimic but I'll absolutely take the compliment, thank you.

I'm also curious as to what the quantity actually does reflect – I clearly haven't peered deep enough into the soul of the UWMS.
Where can I read more about UNICOR doing some of the redesign work?
Well, it IS a cross post from American Renaissance, a white supremacist publication.
Why not kanban? Stuff floats in the air on its own anyway.
Comments:

The risk of being murdered on the NYC subway is comparable to being struck by lightning? I assume those struck by lightning are outside at the time…I go inside when lightning threatens, thus mitigating or eliminating that risk. What can I do on the subway? If nothing, that subway risk is much higher than the lightning risk. Not a comparison that gives one the warm and fuzzies.

The elephant in the room is the mention of “decaying older infrastructure” combined with “very expensive [and very slow to deploy] new infrastructure”. If upgrading old (ancient by technology standards) is practically impossible, then maintenance becomes a Ship of Theseus problem. Charming from a “look how our ancestors used donkey carts” sort of way, but ultimately NYC becomes a laughing stock for the developed world. Not the look NYC is going for, I assume. Changing this situation requires a dramatic structural change in how NYC operates and envisions itself, dare I say a Giuliani/Moses approach. Unfortunately, the best suited for that job will soon be taking on the office of US President, whether you like him or not.

Population density doesn’t mean a city is succeeding. Unless Mogadishu and the Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Bangladesh is your idea of even greater success.

The author sounds like someone who has spent so long living in Manhattan that he has become desensitized to the many issues it faces. Issues patently obvious to newcomers with fresh eyes. It’s human nature, but eventually the water gets too hot for any frog in the beaker…

Manhattan/NYC has the additional problem of being so densely populated that any crime has a larger “blast radius” as measured by the number of citizens directly or indirectly affected by the crime. (“I walk on that street every day, and did you hear what happened?”). So the perceived crime rate/impact is much greater, which grinds on you almost as badly as actually experiencing those crimes. Lucky NYC.

Wicked problems all. Wish the East Coast cities all the luck in addressing them. Those citizens are Americans too. Letting the Bronx burn really isn’t an option nowadays.
What? Carbon is reduced. Hydrogen is reduced. Any fossil fuel is reduced. All can give up electrons to oxygen and so be oxidized, liberating energy.
> so I’ve been resistant to putting down roots

Question about this. My partner is similar -- if we aren't going to be somewhere "forever" they are hesitant to do any "work" to socialize etc. because "we are leaving soon". In what ways do you perceive "putting down roots" as somehow unappealing if you don't know how long you'll be there?

(I almost said "how long you'll be around" -- but none of us know that, so really the question is even more pointed!)
The hundred year functioning of democracy begs to differ. It literally works nothing like how anyone tells themselves it does, not just laypeople, but arguably even political scientists. It's quite possible that no echelon of society has had the correct story so far, and yet... (again, see "Democracy for Realists")

Also, the vision heuristics that brains use to help us monitor motion as another obvious example. They lie. They work. They won.

https://x.com/foone/status/1014267515696922624?s=46

> Objective truth is crucial to science

Agreed. We define science and science is truth about base reality.

> Objective truth is crucial to [...] progress.

More contentious imho. Depends if progress is some abstract human ideal that we pursue, or simply "survival". If it's the former, maybe objective truth is required. If it's the latter, I find the simulation evidence to be that over-adherence to objective truth (at least information-theoretically) is in fact detrimental to our survival.
I am sure there are loads of people in America who say we don't need to do [thing] because EVs are coming. I don't press these people on their arithmetic because they aren't arguing in good faith, they just hate [thing].